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row of median circles; a black line from posterior margin of eye to upper 

 base . of pectoral fin ; four or five blue spots on opercles and an irregular 

 brown blotch on cheek below eye; two brownish blotches on base of pectoral; 

 the dorsals crossbarred by four rows of brown spots ; the caudal crossbarred 

 by five rows of brown spots ; the anal shades into slate gray on outer third ; 

 the pectorals and ventrals pale yellowish brown. [Seale.] 



I have examined Scale's type, No. 6474, 70 millimeters long, 

 and two cotypes, Nos. 6489 and 6541, of the Bureau of Science 

 collection, obtained by him from the market in Hongkong, China. 

 They are now in very bad condition and the color markings have 

 largely disappeared. 



84. RHINOGOBIUS SCHULTZEI up. nov. 



Dorsal VI, 1-8 ; anal I, 7 ; there are 29 scales in a longitudinal 

 series, 9 in a transverse series, and 15 before the first dorsal. 



The trunk strongly compressed laterally, with arched back and 

 horizontal ventrally, the depth 4.66 in length; the head large, 

 broad, depressed, its length 3 to 3.1 in head and trunk together ; 

 its breadth equal or almost equal to body depth, about of its 

 own length, and greater than its depth which is half or less 

 than half its length ; the snout convex, bluntly rounded, contained 

 4 times in head; the eye equals snout and is in the forward 

 half of head; the interorbital two-thirds an eye diameter in 

 breadth; the mouth ' terminal, oblique, with thick lips and pro- 

 jecting chin, the posterior angle of maxillary extending to a 

 point beneath forward part of pupil ; three rows of teeth in upper 

 jaw, the outer row enlarged, and a band of four rows in lower 

 jaw ; there are no canines ; the tongue broad, truncate ; the body 

 covered with ctenoid scales, those in front of first dorsal smaller 

 and extending to eyes ; the remainder of head naked ; there are 

 two interorbital pores, one behind eye at the beginning of the 

 prominent supraopercular groove, and two on posterior margin 

 of preopercle; the dorsals far apart, the first one low, its height 

 one-half that of body; the second dorsal and anal short, an- 

 gulate posteriorly, the longest ray of second dorsal 0.75 to f of 

 depth, falling far short of caudal when depressed; the caudal 

 truncate with rounded corners, its length $ that of head and 

 a little more than that of pectoral which extends posteriorly to a 

 point above anal papilla; the ventrals short, round-pointed, 

 scarcely reaching anus, as long as head. 



The color in alcohol uniform brownish, paler beneath, with 

 a conspicuous dark brown spot on posterior part of opercle; 

 the first dorsal sprinkled with minute violet-brown specks form- 



